Your Top 3 Priorities

What are your Top 3 daily priorities?

Mine are in order:

1.  Take a snap shot of all the incoming information and requests

2.  Follow-up

3.  Create Opportunities

That's it for the priorities of the day.   Yes, you can only have 3.  These are the goals for my daily routine when focusing on the professional part of the day.
Health, family and leisure are also priorities each day, however, these are part of the "turning work off" part of the day.

Thankfully I'm an early bird.   #1 is taken care of before heading out to the gym for a great start to the day.  One of the keys to prioritizing so many tasks is to take the biggest, most difficult and "ugly" task you do not want to do and make it first on the task list.  (Reference Eat That Frog for a light read to learn more).

#2 is actually three steps:   Follow-up, follow-up and follow-up.   I know I have shared this with you more than once and it really works.   This is one of those steps you do consistently with results.   

Caution:  if you are too aggressive it may be considered stalking and you may end up with negative results.   Finding the right balance with each person' personality will help with your follow-up frequency required.

#3 My favourite - Create Opportunities!  Pro-actively reach out to clients, prospects and associates to genuinely find out how they are doing, where they are going with their business and if they are open to starting a discussion about any topic related to your services or not. 

This discussion can be about services we offer or it can be about connecting them to others to help them grow.   It can also be about listening to their ideas and working together to make things happen.   

Opportunities are all around us and does not mean always selling your services.  Take a look at the very big picture and see how these Opportunities make the difference.

What are your Top 3 Priorities?